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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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Scholar AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI research search tool for peer-reviewed papers with citation management, now integrated into Jenni AI's writing workspace.
156K visits/mo
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Liner
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI research and search assistant for professionals and academics, with cited answers, deep research and file uploads.
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
Basic: $9.99/month (50 credits/month, 9TB uploads)
Premium: $18.99/month (unlimited GPT & Copilot use)
Credits: $4.99 (25 credits)
Credits: $9.99 (50 credits)
Free: $0 (advanced search, ads)
Pro: $14.99/mo billed annually (deep research, 20 uploads/day)
Max: $29.99/mo billed annually (unlimited uploads)
Team: $26.99/user/mo
Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Search across millions of peer-reviewed papers
- ✦Agentic AI chat that consults research and uploaded PDFs
- ✦Auto-citation in over 2,600 citation styles
- ✦One-click Zotero/Mendeley library import with metadata and PDFs
- ✦ScholarAI GPT available in the ChatGPT GPT Store
- ✦Developer API for integrating research search
- ✦AI agents for search, research and writing
- ✦Advanced search with cited, accurate answers
- ✦Deep research reports
- ✦File upload and analysis
- ✦Access to major AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- ✦Ad-free experience on paid tiers
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Finding and citing academic sources for a paper
- →Chatting with AI about uploaded research PDFs
- →Importing an existing reference library for a new project
- →Building custom apps on top of academic search via API
- →Conduct academic and professional research
- →Get cited answers to factual questions
- →Draft documents with AI support
- →Analyze uploaded files
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